The Face That Must Die

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Author: Ramsey Campbell
you probably are. We are.”
    - “I thought that guy with the umbrella was looking at us weird. Fuck off, cog! Listen” — listen, the cars won’t get us on the way to Sylvia, will they?
    - Those cars waiting at the lights look pretty bad. If we run we can make it across the lights and into Sefton Park.
    - “But we’re going away from Sylvia.”
    - “That’s true. Well, it’s your scene, but I can tell you I don’t like those cars. Half an hour in the park and I’ll take anything, but not right now. And remember this, man: you need me.”
    - “Fair enough, I suppose. Run!”
    - We’re across. Don’t slow down. Did you see that car straining to get at us past the lights, those eyes? Blind but they could see us.
    - Right, but I like these trees. The leaves are talking about summer. Listen, we won’t get too far away from Sylvia, will we? I can feel my mind stretching. I don’t want it to snap. Christ, that would be painful, all my thoughts snapping back together.
    - Don’t hassle. We want to get away from those tenements on Lodge Lane. You can feel everyone weighing on everyone else. Think of having twenty floors on top of you. All that sweat and flesh.
    - Bad scene. But this going in the park to get it together seems like a kind of a return to the womb thing.
    - Feel all the life growing around us, the grass and the flowers and the trees. Taking their own time.
    - Beautiful. But let’s not forget Sylvia. She’s beautiful too, and we hurt her.
    - Nobody’s forgetting. Now just feel your foot crossing over from the pavement into the park. Feel the grass accept you.
    - Fantastic. It kind of breathes in so I don’t hurt it.
    - It’s more than that. It’s welcoming you.
    - This is incredible. There’s nobody about except the grass and the trees. Where are we going, down to the lake to see the ducks?
    - I shouldn’t think you’d feel too good about ducks right now. Let’s go and see where your dope is planted.
    - That’s a great idea. Maybe it’ll talk to us. Like those trees aren’t moving but they’re talking about the sun.
    - They’re talking about life. You aren’t there yet, though — the dope has been talking to you since you came on.
    - I’m with you. Look how the shadows of the trees are lying down on the path to be in the shade. But they are the shade.
    - Identity is a weird thing.
    - Right. Those shrubberies, I mean, the sunlight just lies there like honey. I could eat it. But what I meant to say was, the dope is just behind them.
    - That’s where I have to go.
    - We don’t have to anything, man. We’re free. We can just let the sunlight splash over us.
    - We have to go there. Don’t you want to visit it? Aren’t you grateful for what it’s giving you?
    - Shit, you’re right, I am ungrateful. Come on, I’m going to thank it. The shrubberies are caressing us. Like —
    - There are shoots there if you look. They’re quiet now, but when they grow someone’s going to eat them or smoke them. Then they’ll tell him everything.
    - Right. Shoots, thank you, you’re beautiful. But I was going to say, those shrubberies were caressing us like Sylvia. I was just wondering if she’s still at Den and Heather’s. She might have come back to ours. I mean, if someone told me to fuck off while I was stoned I mightn’t be able to get it together either. But I do love her. She knows that.
    - I can feel the shoots growing. Birth, that’s what life is for.
    - Right. You know, Sylvia wants a baby, I can tell. Maybe we weren’t into getting married before, you know, the whole straight scene. But if she wants it, it’s my scene. “If this is you telling me this, shoots of dope, we’ll both come and thank you.”
    - I could be reborn.
    - That’s fantastic, man. How?
    - Just think how a seed must feel.
    - Don’t stop! I mean, too much!
    - Thrusting down through the earth, feeling the soil hug you, the trees meditating.
    - Digging in the earth?
    - That’s right.
    - Like this?
    - Right, but stay
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